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The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
In The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip, Stephen Witt delivers far more than a corporate biography. He offers a compelling account of how a relatively obscure graphics-chip company became the indispensable infrastructure provider for the artificial intelligence revolution.
One of the book's most striking observations is that the AI revolution was never solely about software. As Witt writes, “The deep-learning revolution was as much a revolution in hardware as software.”
Beyond Huang, the book introduces a cast of scientists, engineers, and visionaries whose breakthroughs laid the foundations for today's AI ecosystem. The narrative deftly moves between boardrooms, research labs, and geopolitical fault lines, reminding readers that technological dominance is never merely a business story, it is also a story of national power, global competition, and human ambition.
Engaging, meticulously researched, and surprisingly accessible, the book is an essential reading for business leaders, technologists, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the forces shaping the twenty-first century. It is not merely the story of a company, it is the story of the machine age being rewritten in real time.
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Mr. Stephen Witt
He is an award-winning journalist, author, and investigative writer whose work explores the intersection of technology, business, and innovation. His book Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip (2025), won the Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2025. His earlier bestseller, How Music Got Free (2015), a gripping investigation into digital piracy and the transformation of the music industry, was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Witt's writing has appeared in leading publications including The New Yorker, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and GQ.
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